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Interesting reading on the conservation status of freshwater fish...

10-10-2011 04:01PM

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mattcullen

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http://www.npws.ie/publications/redlists/RL5.pdf

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#2 11-10-2011 05:02PM

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I didn't realise pike were not native

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#3 11-10-2011 05:36PM

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yeah seems a lot of species aren't...surprising. Think the Irish for Pike translates as 'foreign fish' or something along those lines

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#4 11-10-2011 05:43PM

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either are bream, roach, perch, tench, carp.... etc... etc...

i think the only ones that are are trout, salmon and char.

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#5 11-10-2011 05:51PM

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Intresting to see the resources that went into this report :mad: and the findings especially re non native species dace in particular but when it comes to stopping the harm they do they have no resources or indeed desire to stop the problem .

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